NATALIA
His words floated in the air for what felt like forever, and at first I did not understand them because they sounded like something from a different life that belonged to someone else and not to me. I blinked slowly and stared at the doctor, waiting for him to say that he had made a mistake or that he was talking about another patient or that the medicine they had given me was playing tricks on my mind. But he kept smiling at me with that same gentle look, and my father’s hand tightened around mine like he was trying to hold me together before I fell apart completely. My heart started beating so fast that I could hear it in my ears, and a strange ringing sound filled my head until everything else felt far away and unreal.
Pregnant!
The word kept repeating inside me like an echo
